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Your Brain Is the Biggest Threat to Your Portfolio Right Now
Market chaos is loud. Your panic is louder. Here's how to tune it out.
Bloomberg: "No reliable safe havens." Billionaires have been investing elsewhere. Here's how to get in.
Bloomberg's Marcus Ashworth wrote plainly recently: "No more reliable safe havens."
After all, the S&P fell over 7% from the February peak. Bonds, even with less risk, are barely keeping pace with inflation.
So-called "diversified" portfolios have gotten hit from multiple directions.
Meanwhile, the world’s wealthiest have been setting records in another asset class.
Circumstances are always unique, but after the dot-com bust, it grew roughly 24% annually for a decade. After 2008, roughly 11% annually for 12 years.
Blue-chip art.
Why? It trades globally in multiple currencies, has scarce supply, and has shown near-zero correlation to equities since 1995.*
With Masterworks, 70,000+ investors allocated $1.3B fractionally across 500+ artworks featuring Banksy, Basquiat, and Picasso.
Accredited? You can invest in a diversified portfolio of postwar and contemporary art alongside two other real assets. From 2017-2025, the mix would’ve beat the S&P 500 by 3.1x.
See if you can improve your portfolio performance all in one diversified strategy.
*According to Masterworks data. Investing involves risk. Past performance is not indicative of future returns. Important Reg A disclosures: masterworks.com/cd

The market has been throwing a tantrum lately. Volatility is up, headlines are scary, and your 401(k) balance looks like a guitar that got knocked off a stand mid-set. But here's the thing nobody wants to say out loud, “The market isn't your biggest problem right now. You are!”
Behavioral finance has a name for what happens when people watch their portfolios drop and hit the sell button, panic selling. And it destroys more wealth than any correction ever could. We just posted a full breakdown of why the stock market always comes back, and more importantly, what you should actually be doing when it feels like the floor is falling out.
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